Meta’s web API system, GraphQL, is a different kind of API. With GraphQL, developers use a strongly typed query language to define both requests and responses, allowing an application to specify ...

The Stargate GraphQL API now enables developers to create tables and define schemas in Apache Cassandra without the need to work directly with Cassandra Query Language (CQL).

GraphQL has disadvantages like extra overhead and processing to parse queries. As Gartner analyst Gary Olliffe writes: “GraphQL has emerged as an alternative to REST APIs .

Considering GraphQL is put in the same category as REST, gRPC, and webhooks , calling it a ‘QL’ (Query Language) is a bit of a stretch. It is really a syntax for describing an API .

Hasura, the data access infrastructure company, is adding GraphQL support for MySQL and early access support for SQL Server to its existing support for PostgreSQL, enabling the company to support ...